Graduate school enrollment up

There was a recent piece in Inside Higher Ed about graduate school enrollments nationwide, and it's interesting to look at in UAB's context.

Basically, it says that enrollments are up 3 percent nationally, about the same as its gone up in recent years. This fall, UAB's graduate student enrollment went up by almost 7 percent, growing from 4,449 to 4,755.

A look at the national numbers might indicate why.

Across the country, the biggest increases were in health sciences and engineering, while humanities were flat and business and education each dropped slightly.

At UAB, graduate enrollment in health professions rose from 775 last fall to 792 this semester. Nursing experienced a huge jump, from 475 last fall to 776. Engineering climbed from 229 last year to 309.

These figures all come from UAB's office of planning and analysis, which you can find here.